Word: birk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preceding Reeve in a similar drip test was 20-year-old Arthur Birk (Brethren) of Teegarden, Ind. As soon as the doctors had learned what they could about the effect of ACTH on his adrenals' output of electrocortin, they put him on a salt-free diet. All he had to do was to promise not to take any food or drink away from the center. He could work on its house newspaper or play golf or go into Bethesda for the movies. But it was no snap: he lost 15 pounds in a week...